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Utility easements; pole attachments.

This bill did not become law and its session has ended, so it can no longer move. It would have to be reintroduced.

VA HB 979 · House Bill · 2020

Stage
Session ended
Started in
House
Sponsor
1
Latest action
Feb 11, 2020

What it does

Utility easements; pole attachments. Declares that aprescriptive easement, including the right to use such easement for bothelectric and communications services, exists in an area unserved by broadbandwhen an electric cooperative has a utility map showing the placement, datingback not fewer than 20 years, of facilities owned, maintained, or controlled bythe electric cooperative within an easement, and there is no documentation inthose records of the electric cooperative or in the public record showing agrant of an inconsistent express easement by the landowner to the cooperativewithin the easement area. The measure entitles a third-party nongovernmentalbroadband service provider to use such…

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Where it stands

This bill did not become law and its session has ended, so it can no longer move. It would have to be reintroduced.

  1. Introduced (Current step)

    Introduced · Feb 11, 2020

  2. Committee (Needs attention)

    The session ended first

  3. Floor (Not started)

  4. Law (Not started)

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Who is involved

Sponsors

The lawmakers who put their names on it, lead sponsors first.

Where it goes next

While a bill can still move, the questions are about people and money in Virginia.

Work with this bill

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